Shadow Sonic Doubleplay, Sonic Nanoflex, Sonic Basic, Sonic NanoMAG Installation Instruction

Installation Instruction For Sonic Series:

Sonic Doubleplay, Sonic Nanoflex, Sonic NanoMAG, Sonic Basic

Introduction:

Thank you for choosing a Sonic preamplifier system from Shadow. Shadow’s soundhole fitted preamps for acoustic and classical guitars are designed for
sonic clarity, ease of installation and preservation of your instrument. Shadow’s Sonic series includes four different products. All Sonic products are equipped
with Nanoflex undersaddle pickup and/or NanoMAG pickup for the fingerboard. The soundhole fitted preamp eliminates cut of big holes in the guitar.In order
to get the most out of your new pickup system, we recommend you to read the installation instruction and the owner’s manual.

Installation:

For all products of Shadow’s Sonic series you should start with the endpin installation, followed by the Nanoflex and/or NanoMAG pickup installation and
finished with the fitting of the preamp. The system is powered by two 3V cell batteries (Sonic Basic uses one battery only) and it turns on automatically as
soon as the guitar cable is plugged in into the endpin. The battery LED lights on 30 minutes before need to be replaced.

1. Endpin Installation:

Take off the strings, remove original strap nut and increase hole up to 12,5mm diameter. Remove endpin strap nut, hexagon nut and wahser from the endpin
(Fig. 1). Mount the endpin as shown on Fig. 2. Adjust the inside nut so that the larger threads end just below the surface of the instrument (Fig. 2, arrow).
Put the washer from the outside on the endpin jack, tighten the hexagon nut with 12mm wrench and screw endpin strap nut on.

Fig. 1

endpin

inside nut

hexagon nutinside washer

strap nut

outside washer

Fig. 2

2. NanoMAG Installation (at Sonic Doubleplay and Sonic NanoMAG):

Remove the protective foil and press NanoMAG pickup to the end of your fingerboard. Make sure the pickup sits parallel to your frets and touches the
guitar’s top.

3. Nanoflex Installation:

Take off the original saddle and drill a 3.1mm diameter hole in the corner of the saddle slot at the bass string side (see Fig.3). The hole has to be drilled in
an angle of 30°-45°. Check your bracing before drilling the hole to avoid a damage of it. Clean up the saddle slot and eliminate the wood dust and chips.
Push the pickup cable through the hole in the bridge and place the pickup into the bridge slot showing “NFX top” up towards the saddle. To accommodate
the height of the original bridge reduce the height of the saddle (Fig. 4). Pay attention, that the bottom side has to be absolutely flat.

bridge

Fig. 4Fig. 3

original bridge saddle

0.8 mm

single
wire clip

top of instrument

E-6 string

original bridge saddle

drilled hole
(angle: 30-45°)

Nanoflex undersaddle pickup

E-1 string

Insert the saddle and secure it temporarily with a piece of tape. Use the single wire clip to secure the wire from the pickup to the underside of the top and
secure the cable into it (Fig. 3). Failing to secure the wire may produce bizarre audio consequences. Place the double cable holder to the side of the guitar
and secure the endpin cable and the pickup cable into it.

Fig. 5

strings

saddle

pickup

Wrong

instrument’s bridge

4. Soundhole Fitted Preamplifier Installation:

Carefully sand with a fine sandpaper the interior side of your guitar`s top where the preamp will be placed. Afterwards clean up this area and eliminate the
wood dust. Place the preamp for testing purposes to the place it fits your guitar best. Before you fix the preamp measure the hight of the top bracing if the
amount of adhesive tape is sufficient. If the braces are too high you should apply adhesive stickers on the top of the stickers fixed on the preamp.

Connect the pickup(s) and endpin cable, remove protective foil from the preamp sticker
and press the preamp to the top. Mount the strings and tune your instrument. Make
sure the strings do not pull the bridge saddle forward in neck direction (Fig. 5, 6 & 7).

You can fix your preamp into the guitar permamently by using the adhesive sticker
already applied to the preamp. If you want to take the preamp off from time to time
use included velcro stickers. Velcro stickers have to be glued on the top of the
permament mount stickers. After gluing to the top (Fig. 8) do not remove the preamp
for at least 12 hours to achieve the bond with the wood. Connect the endpin with a
regular guitar cable to an amplifier.

The battery turns automatically on, as soon as you plug the instrument cable into
the endpin. To spare the battery life, take the cable out, when not used.

Fig. 6

strings
saddle

pickup

Correct Correct

instrument’s bridge

inclinated classical guitar bridge

Fig. 8

Fig. 7

strings
saddle

pickup

instrument’s bridge

inclinated acoustic guitar bridge

Owner’s Manual For Sonic Series:

Sonic Doubleplay, Sonic Nanoflex, Sonic NanoMAG, Sonic Basic

Potentiometers:

Volume Control:

The volume potentiometer controls the overall output signal. Turn it clockwise to raise and anticlockwise to reduce
the volume.

Blend Control:

The heart of Sonic Doubleplay is its blend control. With the blend control you can mix the Nanoflex pickup in the
bridge and the magnetic NanoMAG at the fingerboard. This gives you an incredible range of different soounds
and colours for your individual playing.

Tone Control:

The tone potentiometer controls the overall sound colour. It functions as a bass and treble control simultaneously.
If you turn it anticlockwise you add clear and transparent trebles, without cutting bass frequencies. Turning it
clockwise you will create a warm bass sound.

Phase Invert Switch:

The phase invert switch will invert the signal and cancels the overall feedback.

Battery LED:

The LED will turn on when the battery power is low and batteries should be replaced within 30 minutes.

Battery Compartment:

All Sonic products use enviromentally friendly and long-lasting 3 volt coin-type batteries (# 2032). To exchange
the batteries push the left and right clip gently together and pull out the battery holder. The plus side of the battery
faces towards the preamp’s top.

Treble Control:

This controls the amount of treble or “highs”. Turn it clockwise to raise and anticlockwise to reduce the trebles.

Bass Control:

This controls the amount of bass or “lows”. Turn it clockwise to raise and anticlockwise to reduce the bass.

Technical Specifications:

SH Sonic Doubleplay

Pickup
Battery Power
Battery Usage
Frequency Range
Output Impedance

Nanoflex & NanoMAG

2 x 3 Volt (# 2032)

1,2 mA; approx. 180 hrs.

20 Hz - 30 kHz 20 Hz - 30 kHz 20 Hz - 20 kHz

600 Ohm

Dimensions:

SH Sonic Nanoflex

SH Sonic NanoMAG

SH Sonic Nanoflex

Nanoflex

2 x 3 Volt (# 2032)

0,8 mA; approx. 250 hrs.

600 Ohm 600 Ohm 600 Ohm

SH Sonic NanoMAG

NanoMAG

2 x 3 Volt (# 2032)

0,8 mA; approx. 250 hrs.

SH Sonic Basic

Nanoflex

1 x 3 Volt (# 2032)
0,25 mA; approx. 1000 hrs.

20 Hz - 30 kHz

SH Sonic Basic

SH Sonic Doubleplay

Nanoflex pickups do not only take the vibrations
of the strings like common undersaddle pickups.
Nanoflex senses the vibrations of the strings AND
the body of the instrument simultaneously. This
gives the equivalent of having a microphone mixed

with an undersaddle pickup. No other technology
gives you this high level of sound reproduction.

NanoMAG is the only pickup of its kind on the market
which provides an acoustic sound, but also canproduce
the sweet blues or jazz sound. The pickup is protected
by an epoxy layer and the silver-platinum shielding will
provide together with active electronics a low impedance
hum-free output signal. It is very resistant to feedback
and has an incredible dynamic in all positions.